This environmental impact assessment for Kriegers flak ... - Vattenfall

sary. An example that has been studied and presented
at the extended consultation, is the building of 86
turbines with a capacity of 5MW, i.e. a total capacity
of 430 MW.
9.4 Smaller turbines (less capacity)
If smaller turbines are used, a larger area must be utilised
or, otherwise, the same amount of energy cannot
be produced.
As described above, it is difÞ cult to increase the
area used, but if one choses instead to produce less energy
within the same area, then the Þ nancial proÞ tability
will be a limiting factor. As also described above,
a conÞ guration resulting in less energy production
can be more economical if only one connection point
is required. An example that has been studied and
presented at the extended consultation is the building
of 88 turbines with a capacity of 3.6 MW, i.e. a total
capacity of 316.8 MW.
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A further reason for using turbines with a lower
capacity would be that 5 MW turbines are not yet in
serial production.
9.5 Larger turbines (higher capacity)
Sweden Offshore plans to use the turbine model with
the highest capacity available on the market at the
time that procurement commences. This is assuming
that the technology has been proven and tested. The
construction is planned for 2007 and 2008 and it is
currently not likely that a turbine with higher capacity
than 5 MW will exist and/or be proven and tested.
However, if this should be the case, Sweden Offshore
is open to using a turbine with a higher capacity than
5 MW.